Elon Musk talks up Tesla’s upcoming synthetic intelligence

Tesla CEO Elon Musk talked up the corporate’s work to develop customized for synthetic intelligence on Thursday throughout a chat at an organization celebration for educational and business researchers.

For the occasion in Lengthy Seaside, Calif., Musk introduced with him Tesla’s vice chairman of , Jim Keller. Musk talked in regards to the firm’s AI in the midst of offering details about what Keller, a former AMD chip architect, is engaged on.

“Jim is growing specialised AI that we predict would be the greatest on this planet,” Musk stated, in keeping with one one that was on the occasion, which was not streamed stay.

The specialised may in the future be used inside Tesla automobiles to do the computing work crucial for autonomous driving. Presently, Tesla’s Autopilot system depends on graphics playing cards from Nvidia.

A number of different automakers, together with Ford and GM, are growing self-driving know-how. Alphabet, which has developed customized chips that can be utilized as an alternative of Nvidia graphics playing cards, operates the Waymo self-driving automotive division. Apple has pursued autonomous driving, and it has additionally developed customized silicon to deal with AI workloads on cellular units.

Within the Thursday discuss, Keller instructed that with customized it is attainable to spice up effectivity, whereas Musk talked about energy and price benefits, in keeping with one report in regards to the occasion on Twitter.